Amari Bailey explodes for Pac-12 title game poster, waived off by egregious foul call
Amari Bailey had himself a poster. The UCLA freshman guard had, perhaps, the dunk of the year.Β Against Arizona in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game on Saturday, Bailey cocked back and exploded for a thunderous tomahawk slam right on Arizona’s Pelle Larsson.
And then it was waived off.
For… some reason.
The basket didn’t count after an official (though not the one under the basket with the best view of the play) appeared to signal a push-off offensive foul on Bailey.
Amari Bailey was called for an offensive foul on this dunk.pic.twitter.com/vSUmUrM54m
— ππ‘π ππ©π¨π«ππ’π§π πππ°π¬ (@sportingnews) March 12, 2023
That call caused UCLA coach Mick Cronin to explode on the sideline. Fortunately for Cronin, the officiating crew held the whistle and did not issue a technical foul. It could have, but that would have been compounding a clearly poor whistle.
And the rest of the basketball-viewing public agreed. Twitter lit up with a chorus of folks calling the offensive foul one of the worst calls they’ve seen.
You will never in your life β ever ever ever ever β see a worse call in basketball than one that just took away a slam dunk from Amari Bailey.
It was maybe worse than the one that baseball ump made thatβs been such a thing on Twitter today.— Michael DeCourcy (@tsnmike) March 12, 2023
It was a travesty. https://t.co/dCfHLz8HAK
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) March 12, 2023
That offensive foul on Amari Bailey is legitimately the worst call in the history of basketball.
— Josh Newman (@Joshua_Newman) March 12, 2023
I've watched this 15-20 times.
There is nothing, NOTHING here to call an offensive line.
This is going to bother me deeply until at least Monday. https://t.co/Dy4sGe9yVS
— Josh Newman (@Joshua_Newman) March 12, 2023
That is probable the single worst call in the history of basketball.
Amari Bailey caught a body and deserved an and-1.
— Sam Connon (@SamConnon) March 12, 2023
That's actually an unacceptable call on Amari Bailey to wave off that dunk. That was maybe the dunk of the year and the official got an off-arm call just wrong. are you kidding me?
— Sam Vecenie (@Sam_Vecenie) March 12, 2023
Refs owe Amari Bailey a sportscenter top 10 nod
— Jerrold Smith II (@jerroldhtims) March 12, 2023
CANCEL REFS
THIS DESERVES TO BE IN THE LOUVRE
AMARI FREAKIN BAILEY pic.twitter.com/8QSeKnXvVr
— Mark Schindler (@MG_Schindler) March 12, 2023
This genuinely might be the worst foul call in the history of college basketball and Iβm not exaggerating
Amari Bailey deserved better pic.twitter.com/dmsCfv09qw
— Liam (@Blutman27) March 12, 2023
AMARI BAILEY WAS HOSED
— 'Nata Edwards (@NataTheScribe) March 12, 2023